Helen Fenton

Allege: Definition and part of speech

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Allege

  1. v. t. To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble.
  2. v. t. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.
  3. v. t. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge.
  4. v. t. To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Allegation: Definition and part of speech

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Allegation

  1. n. A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, — usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.
  2. n. The act of alleging or positively asserting.
  3. n. That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.